Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . a Colony to plant there. The description of the Countrey of Mawooshen, 1discovered by the English in the yeere 1602. |3. 5. 6. 7. 8. and 9. MAwooshen is a Countrey lying to the North and byEast of Virginia, betweene the degrees of 43. and45. It is fortie leagues broad, and fiftie in length, lyingin breadth East and West, and in length North and is bordered on the East side with a Countrey, thepeople, whereof they call Tarrantines: on the West w
Hakluytus posthumus, or Purchas his pilgrimes : contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . a Colony to plant there. The description of the Countrey of Mawooshen, 1discovered by the English in the yeere 1602. |3. 5. 6. 7. 8. and 9. MAwooshen is a Countrey lying to the North and byEast of Virginia, betweene the degrees of 43. and45. It is fortie leagues broad, and fiftie in length, lyingin breadth East and West, and in length North and is bordered on the East side with a Countrey, thepeople, whereof they call Tarrantines: on the West withEpistoman, on the North with a great Wood calledSenaglecounc, and on the South with the mayne OceanSea, and many Hands. In Mawooshen it seemeth there are nine Rivers,whereof the first to the East is called Quibiquesson; onwhich there is one Towne, wherein dwell two Sagamosor Lords, the one called Asticon, the other Abermot. Inthis Towne are fiftie houses, and 150. men. The nameof which Towne is Precante; this River runneth farreup into the Mayne, at the head thereof there is aLake of a great length and breadth; it is at the fall 400. MAP OF NOVA SCOTIA 2. Pemaquidriver. Three DESCRIPTION OF MAWOOSHEN ad. 1623. into the Sea tenne fathoms deepe, and halfe a mileover. The next is Pemaquid, a goodly River and very com-modious all things considered; it is ten fathoms waterat the entrance, and fortie miles up there are two fathomsand a halfe at low water; it is halfe a mile broad, andrunneth into the Land North many daies journey : whereis a great Lake of 18. leagues long and foure broad. In A great Lakethis Lake are seven great Hands: toward the farthestend there falleth in a River, which they call Acaconstomed,where they passe with their Boates thirtie daies journeyup, and from thence they goe over Land twentie daiesjourney more, and then come to another River, wherethey have a trade with Anadabis or Anadabiion, with the Frenchmen have had commerce
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